I'm going to put myself as a weirdo, and also bend your question quite a bit. I'll first provide two answers for my favorite handheld systems from my childhood.
I think my favorite mobile system was my Palm Pilot. I had several (starting from a Palm Pilot III in elementary school), but my Tungsten T5 and subsequent Palm TX were absolutely sick. There were so many good turn based and realtime strategy games released for Palm OS over the years, and the platform was very hackable. My Palm Pilots were also my mp3 players and PMPs for a while, although I eventually migrated to an Archos 604.
After that, I'd say that my favorite handheld was my DS lite. I have such fond memories of playing Mario Kart during my lunch breaks at school over the summer, when I worked as a sweeper (i.e. middle school kids working as assistants to the janitors). Being able to wirelessly play with a bunch of other kids was so cool.
Nowadays? My Steam Deck, nothing else compares for me. I love that thing.
Currently, on the main instance, people have created 40191 accounts (+214 marked as deleted). I don't know how many are active because I don't monitor it, but once again, I greet all of you here :) In recent days, the traffic on the website has been overwhelming. It's definitely too much for the basic docker-compose setup,...
I haven't looked too closely at how kbin is architected yet, but would it benefit from horizontal scaling? I do full-time development of tooling to administrate very large k8s clusters for a company that you've probably interacted with today without knowing it. Not sure if k8s is the right orchestration system for you, but I'd be more than happy to provide some input on a potential migration to k8s (if kbin is a good fit there). I know there's a community on Matrix as well — I'll try to reach out there too, although it may be a bit.
Methinks that a rewrite from PHP to Go would be a pretty massive undertaking. PHP's performance characteristics have gotten a lot better as the language and various runtimes have improved, although it's not anything like Go. I think the best route would be for someone to implement another federated link aggregation system in Go, so then we'd have a diverse selection to choose from — Lemmy in Rust, kbin in PHP, this hypothetical new platform in Go, along with everything else out there. A heterogeneous system is good for the continued health of the threadiverse IMO.
There are no free lunches. You want a nice platform? You've gotta pay for it somehow. You want a platform not filled with spam? You gotta keep it clean somehow. Funding and moderation. I really hope that kbin can survive off of donations, and I have already financially contributed fairly heavily in pursuit of that. Ernest is doing the right thing by communicating about these issues early, and often. Part of why Reddit got so fucked up was that there was no community engagement when it came to raising money. That's the nature of all for-profit platforms IMO.
This is where federated, FOSS platforms can do better.
I've said it before — I'm not sure if you have it roadmapped, but I'd be really happy to contribute $5-25 on a monthly basis using Patreon/Open Collective to help pay for ongoing development and infrastructure costs. I really love what you've built here, and I'm super excited to see where it will go.
Drat! That's super disappointing. I don't know why they rejected your application, since you seem like their target demographic (FOSS developer running a community-funded alternative to a proprietary platform). Some gentle community outreach might get them to reconsider, but I'd also be worried about people being jerks.
Well, it's monthly coffees for now! I'll make sure I have something in my calendar.
Apparently someone got into a debate with a bot in Reddit. Maybe it's not a surprise that the bot was anti-mod, pro-Reddit admin. Make sure you scroll down in the comments to see the second screenshot (it's a screenshot.of the same conversation but in dark mode).
Oh my God! I was ready for this to just be another instance of someone erroneously being called a bot, but instead I learned how to bait ChatGPT-based bots into outing themselves. An absolutely brilliant move. I wonder who's running the bot...
EDIT: as others here and on the linked instance have said, this may just be someone trolling.
I see a lot of posts about how they uploaded anti-spez stuff onto reddit, or participated in the nsfw spams/john oliver spams. While I get wanting to let it all out, this ultimately keeps up engagement on reddit rather than bringing it down....
My interactions have been limited to 1-2 minutes to get some key pieces of info about my account (most recently, my client ID and secret so I can nuke my comments once I get my GDPR takeout). Teddit is a great way to view things without giving Reddit traffic.
My ArchiveTeam warrior instance has been going hard backing up Reddit for weeks now, however ;) I'm at 50+ gigs and 500K items backed up. A drop in the bucket compared to some of the folks listed on the leaderboard, but it feels nice to be doing my part. http://tracker.archiveteam.org/reddit/
Perhaps only allow users to post titles and comments that are a command and a line? Like this: ⌘–
EDIT: and have that be the only moderation restriction going forward besides things that would get the subreddit removed. The more relevant the post is to the literal words "command" and "line" and the unicode symbols I posted, the better.
EDIT: correction, I posted an endash. Something like a box drawing line would be better, i.e. ⌘─
Methinks this will pass, or at least get better. Some degree of community centralization will happen. I don't think (and also don't want) complete centralization to happen, but I expect a we'll reach a fairly agreeable middle-ground. Lemmy and the fediverse have been around for a bit, but this is still early days.
The BuyItForLife subreddit is trying to figure out what to do with the changes hitting Reddit and some really interesting points about possible attempts to advertise products that aren't really BIFL. Would be great if we could encourage them to come here. Edit to add link that won't let Reddit track you:...
Same here! I upvote/boost a lot more than I did on Reddit, and my threshold for commenting is much lower than it used to be. Part of it is that I want this place to succeed, so I want to help it be more active. I absolutely agree that this community is smaller, friendlier, and less cynical than what we had on Reddit. That's the other part, it's really lowered my threshold of engagement.
Yep, this would be fantastic. Ditto goes for the apps. If anyone with experience developing accessible apps wants to help the Artemis dev, that would be awesome. I'm 100% backend, usually in Go or Python, so I don't have much to contribute personally :(
Thanks for all you do! I do devops shit for a living and I can't imagine what it's like to keep the lights on in a situation like this. I'm just really excited for what it feels like this place will become, as are so many others here.
That's badass, I'm really happy that's happening! As someone doing devops type stuff, you do what you have to. Running alpha code so you can test and continuously improve accessibility seems like a perfectly good thing to do to me, especially early on. I may or may not have deployed things into prod that were pre-alpha 😅 I hated it, but it solved a problem, and I had a shitton of alerts around that component.
Thanks again for responding. Any way I could throw a few bucks your way to help with server costs?
Coasters are also great. My girlfriend made an ungodly number of cat butt coasters (you'll see if you Google it) from cotton and they were a huge hit. I still use mine on my nightstand every single night.
Breaking the ice - favorite handheld gaming system you owned?
Just dropping into this magazine to say hi! My favorite handheld was the PS Vita....
/kbin server update - or how the server didn't blow up
Currently, on the main instance, people have created 40191 accounts (+214 marked as deleted). I don't know how many are active because I don't monitor it, but once again, I greet all of you here :) In recent days, the traffic on the website has been overwhelming. It's definitely too much for the basic docker-compose setup,...
Fun anti-mod bot conversation on Reddit 🇫🇷 Jesse #1 HEXAGON FAN (@cpluspatch@fedi.cpluspatch.com) (fedi.cpluspatch.com)
Apparently someone got into a debate with a bot in Reddit. Maybe it's not a surprise that the bot was anti-mod, pro-Reddit admin. Make sure you scroll down in the comments to see the second screenshot (it's a screenshot.of the same conversation but in dark mode).
Be patient! We'll get there eventually.
I see a lot of comments pointing out bugs and saying something along the lines like "they need to fix this ASAP, otherwise... something something"....
So, the first kBin post was from an anarchist...
The best way to protest against reddit is simply to not interact with Reddit
I see a lot of posts about how they uploaded anti-spez stuff onto reddit, or participated in the nsfw spams/john oliver spams. While I get wanting to let it all out, this ultimately keeps up engagement on reddit rather than bringing it down....
Perfection.
I was wondering when they'd get round to the smaller subreddits
Loving the richness of variety in fediverse
Post blackout Reddit and the future of Buyitforlife (www.reddit.com)
The BuyItForLife subreddit is trying to figure out what to do with the changes hitting Reddit and some really interesting points about possible attempts to advertise products that aren't really BIFL. Would be great if we could encourage them to come here. Edit to add link that won't let Reddit track you:...
OC Road construction at night
I've felt more compelled to contribute to the "Fediverse" than I ever did on Reddit.
Over the last week or so I have noticed that I have a lot more fun engaging in discussions on here as opposed to reddit....
r/Blind's Meetings with Reddit and the Current Situation Regarding Accessibility and API Changes
The following is the text copied from the reddit post in the /r/blind sub reddit....
I am new to the Fediverse. I vaguely understand how Lemmy instances broadcast content to each other, but I was surprised to find Lemmy communities on kbin. How does that work?
And it also seems that mastodon can also be "syndicated" to these other communities, and vice versa? Is that true?...
Economics rule
I'm a college student who loves to make doilies but no one needs or uses doilies
what else can i make that is similar to doilies but people might want? I could start randomly throwing them at people?...